Who am I

My name is Märt Ridala and I am the blogger behind Pilveraal (cloud-computer in estonian). In Pilveraal I write about IT and innovation. I will have some estonian perspective to it, but most IT trends are more or less global.

Here is a short introduction of who I am. I have been working in the IT sector for more than 15 years in the biggest Estonian IT service providers MicroLink and Elion (part of TeliaSonera group). Currently I hold the position of SaaS development manager in Elion.

During my career I have done and am currently doing the following interesting things:
- Managed and merged a team of over 50 system administrators
- Helped to create and launch and now run the Promoter Index service.
- Helped to start the Estonian ICT democenter. I also occassionnaly host guests there.
- Run the MicroLink Incubator open-innovation program
- Help to start the E-waybill system for the Estonian Forestry sector.
- Moderate the European Innovation Agencies IT analysis task force for TAFTIE
- ...and also manage teams of different sizes, lead tens of projects, present on seminars, write articles and many-many other things.

I have BA degree on computer sciences and MBA from Tallinn Technical University.

My contacts are:
mart.ridala@pilveraal.ee
Skype: mridala
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mridala
LinkedIN: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/M%C3%A4rt/Ridala